Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contradictions mar the main theme of Two Roads to Sumter, omissions and blithe generalizations make all of its interpretations suspect. The book neglects the economic reasons for the War without so much as refuting them, implying that slavery and secession alone were at issue. It never explains adequately why the North regarded the Union as sacred, or why Lincoln initially joined the Whigs. And even as popularized history (no footnotes or bibliography), Two Roads is excessively given to glib, cliched, and romantic insights...
Late yesterday afternoon, Secret Service men and Dallas police arrested a 24-year-old stock clerk on suspicion of murdering the President. Before he was apprehended, the suspect, Lee H. Oswald, shot and killed one of more than 200 policemen moving in on him in a Dallas movie theater...
Even as literary memorabilia, the book is made suspect by Harris' ravening ego and his congenital inability to tell the truth. Son of a Royal Navy lieutenant, Harris ran away from his native Galway at 15 and made his way to the U.S. Eventually he became a European correspondent for several U.S. newspapers. When Russian General Mikhail Skoboleff gallantly galloped into the mouths of the Turkish cannon at Plevna, Harris was (he says) "naturally at his heels." Other witnesses recall that he covered the war from a brothel in Odessa...
...that the government, press, and professors scrutinize the present policies. The domino theory, which says that South Vietnam is the first piece in a tightly ranked line extending thousands of miles across the Pacific, may not have been obsolete when John Foster Dulles propounded it. But its validity is suspect if some pieces are unwilling to topple dutifully at a push transmitted from China through their neighbors. The assertion that a Vietcong victory in South Vietnam would eventually "outflank" India needs further explanation, and American economic interests in the area ought to be more fully appraised. The consequences for American...
...Gardner died 21 years after this ceremony--but her cult has grown. The museum guards uphold it. Of course, they are so old that I suspect that Mrs. Gardner selected and stationed them as carefully as she planned the inanimate objects of the museum. When these guards speak of "her," Mrs. Gardner seems very alive...